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H.E.R.E. Journal is a magazine about the Hudson Valley—the ecology, people, & where the two meet. Welcome to H.E.R.E. Publication of @theunderstoryhv

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For H.E.R.E.’s the Thing, our back page where we ask a local to write about an object that connects them to what’s meaningful about the Hudson Valley, artist Katie Stout (@ummmsmile) chose a simple folded washcloth cat from the Shaker Museum collection.

“Shaker is shorthand for a certain kind of American virtue: restraint as aesthetic, stripped ornament as moral position, laundered through design culture into an ideology,” writes Stout.

“The Hudson Valley has its own mythology as a place people come to curate, where good taste festers. The farmhouse, the ceramics, the sourdough, the carefully chosen object on the carefully chosen shelf. The washcloth is the antidote. It costs nothing, it signals nothing.”

H.E.R.E.’s the Thing, in our inaugural issue. Purchase via the link in bio.

Written by Katie Stout. Illustration by Isabella Cotier (@isabellacotier). taken in Germantown, New York by @herejournal

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@herejournal is HERE!

Introducing the Hudson Valley’s newest magazine - 152 pages on the 10 counties that make up the Hudson River Estuary Region. H.E.R.E. Journal explores the region’s ecology and people. Inside you’ll meet some bat scientists, flying squirrels, climate migrants, and the family behind @evergrowingfamilyfarm (seen in image 2!), view Frederic Church’s Catskills and a round Shaker barn, and follow beavers to the underriver.

With contributors including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Stephen Shore, Leila Philip, Deborah Berke and Victoria Johnson among many more, H.E.R.E. Journal is designed by Matt Willey (@mrwilley) at Pentagram and edited by Ann Marie Gardner (@annmarieingtown).

Made possible by The Understory, every copy you buy funds our work building social and ecological resilience across the region. The same goes for the H.E.R.E. merch, from the Firefly Hat to the Imposter Ladybug bandana. Proceeds go straight back into the communities and ecosystems on the Journal’s pages.

Get your copy of H.E.R.E. Journal at the link in our bio! by @herejournal

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The Hudson Valley has long been a proving ground for how Americans understand their relationship to the natural world. Today that legacy continues in a new form, with researchers at the Cary Institute, Bard College, Riverkeeper, and the Hudson Valley Farm Hub studying forests, rivers, urban environments, and human communities as interconnected systems. Our deep dive into the region's ecological research is at the link in bio.
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Photos by @george_etheredge by @herejournal

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New York has lost 50,000 volunteer firefighters in 25 years. Volunteer departments traditionally draw people who live down the street from the firehouse. Proximity is everything. In the Hudson Valley, as rents rise, the people most likely to serve are being pushed out.

Caitie Hilverman (@heytherecaitie) interviewed volunteers in the region and reports on the challenges impacting communities’ emergency preparedness.

Support H.E.R.E. Journal, local journalism and other initiatives @theunderstoryhv by purchasing our first issue or subscribing via the link in our bio.

Portraits:

1: Arone Dyer, 46, Greenport Fire Department, Exterior Firefighter; has volunteered for two years. “I love the camaraderie and the action.”

3: Tracy Alexander, 52, Greenport Fire Department, First Lieutenant; has volunteered for over 30 years. “The fire service is built on a strong sense of family and brotherhood. Retention continues to be the biggest challenge.

5: Jacquan Williams, 32, Greenport Fire Department, Captain; has volunteered for 18 years in fire service. “I love helping the community and giving back. We take joy in what we do and love to do our part in this department. This isn’t for everybody and you truly have to want to do this and be here.”

Photographs by Andrew T. Warman (@mrwarman) for H.E.R.E. Journal. taken in Hudson, New York by @herejournal

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From Haverstraw Bay to Newburgh, three kitchens carrying their families’ food traditions up the Hudson.

In Haverstraw, major life events are celebrated with bizcocho, an airy, buttery Dominican cake often filled with pineapple jam and topped with meringue. Vilma Lopez makes them at Vilma’s Bakery (@vilmasbakery) on Main Street, the way her grandmother did as the pastry cook in Tamboril, a cigar town in the Dominican Republic’s Cibao Valley.

“I still remember the cake my grandmother made for my quinceañera, a dress cake,” Lopez says. “And the first cake I made here was a dress cake for a girl. I’ll never forget that.”

Just down the street, Chef Michelle Timothee runs La Talaye (@latalaye), her Haitian catering business. She first learned to cook on summer visits to her grandmother’s farmland in northwest Haiti. Today she works the farmers market circuit and sources from Orange County farms, making soup joumou with local butternut squash.

“Among the farmers, I feel at home,” she says. “I never thought I’d be cooking Haitian food with Hudson Valley ingredients.”

Upriver in Newburgh, lifelong local Charles Bivona (@bivonassimplypasta) brought back his parents’ handmade pasta shop, Bivona’s Simply Pasta, and recently added a sit-down restaurant, Dina’s Italian Cafeteria. The city’s Italian American community has thinned over the years, but Bivona’s gnocchi is keeping that tradition on the table.

All three appear in River of Plenty, Mike Diago’s journey up the river through the immigrant cultures keeping the Hudson Valley’s food heritage alive.

Read the full story in our inaugural issue. Support @theunderstoryhv by purchasing the magazine or subscribing via the link in our bio.

Written by Mike Diago (@_mikediago_). Photographs by Ben Stechschulte (@benstechschulte_dp ) for H.E.R.E. Journal.

In Haverstraw, major life events are celebrated with bizcocho, an airy, buttery Dominican cake often filled with pineapple jam and topped with meringue. Vilma Lopez makes them at Vilma’s Bakery on Main Street, the way her grandmother did as the pastry cook in Tamboril, a cigar town in the Dominican Republic’s Cibao Valley.

“I still remember the cake my grandmother made fo taken in Haverstraw, New York by @herejournal

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In Kerhonkson, Ulster County, one family is growing rice the way it has been grown in Senegal and Gambia for generations.

Ever-Growing Family Farm (@evergrowingfamilyfarm) is run by Malick Badjie and his sister Nyasa Hoyte, together with the rest of their family. Badjie moved from Gambia at 19 and has been farming rice since his hand could grip a sickle. Hoyte works alongside him through every stage of the season, from checking seedling roots to germinating the seeds that become the year’s crop. On harvest day, volunteers wade the marshes alongside the family while elders sing and play drums in colorful mbubb shirts.

“There’s a word in Jola, yansue,” Badjie says. “It refers to the appreciation you show someone, sometimes with food, when you can’t afford to pay them.”

“When we started here, we couldn’t afford to eat our own rice, we only sold it. But we’ve grown year after year, partly thanks to all of the volunteers.”

What the family has built now supplies restaurants in New York City, Long Island, Massachusetts and the Hudson Valley, and sells direct to consumers through their website.

Ever-Growing is one stop in River of Plenty, Mike Diago’s journey up the river through the immigrant cultures keeping the Hudson Valley’s food heritage alive. He visits Vilma Lopez and her bizcocho cakes in Haverstraw, Chef Michelle Timothee’s Haitian kitchen La Talaye just down the street, Ecuadoran Peekskill, the Black Dirt farms of Orange County, and Newburgh’s Bivona’s Simply Pasta and Plaza Azteca. Food culture here, Diago writes, is more diverse than it has been in its 13,000 year history.

Read the full story in our inaugural issue. Support @theunderstoryhv by purchasing the magazine or subscribing via the link in our bio.

More stories on Hudson Valley food purveyors coming soon.

Written by Mike Diago (@_mikediago_). Photographs by Ben Stechschulte (@benstechschulte) for H.E.R.E. Journal. taken in Ever-Growing Family Farm by @herejournal

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Architect Deborah Berke grew up in the spare white rooms of a Congregational church, and even now still finds the Shakers more austere.

In Issue 1, she traces what their buildings taught her: a rigorous order that makes room for quirks, a clarity of form tied directly to program, methods of construction left plainly visible. The 1826 Hancock Round Stone Barn in Pittsfield (@hancockshakervillage), the only circular barn the Shakers ever made, remains her measure.

Written by Deborah Berke (@tenberke_architects, @yalearchitecture). Illustrations by Bruna Canepa (@brunacanepa). Read it in Issue 1 of H.E.R.E. Journal. Link in bio and available along the river. taken in Hancock Shaker Village by @herejournal

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H.E.R.E. Journal is dealing with a bear of a situation: each time we try to reach out to our ursine neighbors, they say they’re too busy to sit for a portrait session. Since they seem to step into frame on their own accord from time to time, we would love to see what our readers capture on their trail cameras, cell phones or regular cameras. But the catch is that the bears must be from within the Hudson Valley. Please send any images to photo@herejournal.org - if your photos are selected for publication, you will receive our first two issues for free! 🎥 by charles_wessler taken in Hudson River by @herejournal

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In 1988, Thomas Berry asked us to stop thinking of the Hudson as scenery.

His essay “The Lower Hudson River Basin As a Bioregional Community” traces the Atlantic tide a hundred miles inland, past the Narrows, the Tappan Zee, the highlands, and argues that what it defines is not a landscape but a community: plankton and sturgeon, shore grasses and Catskill forests, earthworms and humans, none meaningful apart from the others.

Nearly four decades on, the argument has lost none of its urgency. Berry’s closing thought is that the river must appear in our dreams before any better future can arrive.

Read the excerpt in Issue 1 of H.E.R.E. Journal, alongside a letter from the editor. Link in bio. taken in Lower Hudson River by @herejournal

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This past week, we took over the window at @casamagazinesnyc

Casa’s newsstand on 8th Avenue in the West Village has championed independent publishing since the 1970s, and it remains a favorite stomping ground for magazine editors, writers, photographers, and designers. It’s shelved with so many inspiring titles that seeing H.E.R.E. Journal in the storefront means a great deal to us. Thank you, Casa.

Pick up a copy at Casa in the West Village at 22 8th Avenue. Afterwards, stroll over to our shared tidal estuary, The Hudson, and read all about it.

H.E.R.E. Journal is a magazine about the Hudson Valley — the ecology, the people, and where the two meet. A project of @theunderstoryhv taken in CASA Magazines NYC by @herejournal

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NEW TITLE ALERT 🐿️ Welcome to Casa Magazines, H.E.R.E! 🧡

From @herejournal

H.E.R.E. Journal is a magazine about the Hudson Valley—the ecology, the people, and where the two meet.

Encompassing the tidal river and watershed, the Hudson Estuary Region is a truly unique part of the world that has long drawn artists and adventures of all stripes.

Exploring a region that has long been a front line for conversations about conservation, H.E.R.E. Journal seeks to think more expansively about the history and ecology of this place, and to learn how we can all better take care of it.

A publication of @theunderstoryhv, Issue 1 features contributions from over 40 writers, thinkers, and creatives connected to the region, including Robin Wall Kimmerer (@robinwallkimmerer), Deborah Berke (deborahberke), Stephen Shore (@stephen.shore), Ashley Gilbertson (@ashgilbertson), Katie Stout (@ummmsmile), Mark Weaver (@markweaver), Carol Woodin (@Carolwoodinbotanical), and Landon Speers (@landonspeers).

Edited by @annmarieingtown, photo edited by @bigbabygenius, designed by @mrwilley + team at @pentagramdesign, and founded by Matt Stinchcomb

Please call / email +1 (212) 645-1197 casa@casaiconic.com for availability and / or shipping
📍 22 8th Ave, New York, NY 10014
⏱️ Monday - Saturday: 8 AM - 9:30 PM
Sunday: 8 AM - 8:30 PM

#CasaMagazinesNYC #westvillage #newsstand #HEREJournal taken in CASA Magazines NYC by @herejournal

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When historic rain hit upstate New York last week, it fell on farms that have been here far longer than the records we use to measure it. Story Farms (@storyfarmscatskill) has worked this land since 1896. It took eleven inches in a single day.

From photographer Lauren Lancaster, reporting in the field during last week’s rain event:

“While looking around in the Catskill region today for signs of flooding I came across Story Farms, an 1100 acre, fifth generation family farm that has been operating since 1896. Their fields were completely submerged in water from recent rain. After spending time photographing the flood damage I spoke with one of the owners, James Story, who confirmed that they had received 11 inches of rain in one day. James said it was likely the water would be gone the next day but the success of his crops would take time to be revealed.”

The town of Catskill recorded 9.03 inches during the historic downpours and flash flooding that hit upstate New York in late July, according to the Albany Times Union. Tannersville saw 8.49 inches, Elka Park 8.12, Freehold 8.10 and Athens 7.68. Across the eastern Catskills and Hudson Valley, totals ranged from 3 to more than 11 inches.

As Elaine Ronson writes in The New Upstate Migration:

“As fires, floods and extreme heat push more Americans to rethink where they live, the Hudson Valley is increasingly viewed as a safer place to land. But no place is immune, and the region’s own climate future is already coming into view.”

“2025 reports from Scenic Hudson and NPCC4 estimate that the Rondout Creek area will lose up to 20% of its dry land to inundation by the 2050s.”

The water receded within days. What it did to this season’s crops will take far longer to know. We plan to return to Story Farm over the next year to document how a small farm responds, heals and innovates after a flood. As Lancaster puts it, “there will surely be many unexpected challenges long after the water from this flood dries up.”

Photographs by Lauren Lancaster for @herejournal - please visit the link in our bio for the latest issue of H.E.R.E. @theunderstoryhv’s new semi-annual journal. taken in Story Farms by @herejournal

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